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There are two versions of this release, this one and a later repress. Both versions were released in a generic black outer sleeve with a braille sticker on one side (reading "gescom ep ska #03") and a black & white A4 size insert sheet with the text: "Atavistic Rhythms For Beat Freaks".The only difference between the two is that the repress has a mirrored central label on the B/D-side (see the images posted there).

The sample in 'Mag' originates with the much loved drums from Melvin Bliss 'Synthetic Substitution', as used by the Ultra MAGnetic-Mc's (geddit?). Its great to see how far things travel... On a gripe note, it would be helpful if sellers could pay attention to listing headers & stop trying to sell the re-issue in the 1st pressing section- black sleeve & sticker = second pressing... Pain in the ass.

These two tracks sound really sample-heavy and hiphop-influenced, and they aren't much like what Booth/Brown were doing as Autechre at the time. Really raw and really good, more engaging and energetic than the first Gescom EP for me - (of course the packaging isn't as cool). To my ears, the first side sounds better at 33 RPM: at this speed it reminds me of a much rawer take on "Maphive 6.1" from Ae ep7.

What I love so much about EP2 is that it was a sudden departure from EP1. That's what you should expect from Gescom in their further releases for them to take the road less traveled and to do it so well.